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About this book
Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, individuals across Europe increasingly designed, experienced, and described a new world of motion: one characterized by continuous, rather than segmented, movement. New spaces that included vistas along house interiors and uninterrupted library reading rooms offered open expanses for shaping sequences of social behaviour, scientists observed how the Earth rotated around the sun, and philosophers attributed emotions to neural vibrations in the human brain. Early Modern Spaces in Motion examines this increased emphasis on motion with eight essays encompassing a geographical span of Portugal to German-speaking lands and a disciplinary range from architectural history to English. It consequently merges longstanding strands of analysis considering people in motion and buildings in motion to explore the cultural historical attitudes underpinning the varied impacts of motion in early modern Europe.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Bodies and Buildings in Motion
- 1. Navigating the Palace Underworld: Recreational Space, Pleasure, and Release at the Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent
- 2. Passages to Fantasy: The Performance of Motion in Cellini’s Fontainebleau Portal and the Galerie François I
- 3. The Catholic Country House in Early Modern England: Motion, Piety and Hospitality, c. 1580–1640
- 4. Sensory Vibrations and Social Reform at San Michele a Ripa in Rome
- 5. The Rise of the Staircase: Motion in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Domestic Architecture
- 6. Movement through Ruins: Re-experiencing Ancient Baalbek with Jean de la Roque
- 7. A Paper Tour of the Metropolis: The Architecture of Early Modern London in the Royal Magazine
- 8. Libraries in Motion: Forms of Movement in the Early Modern Library (1450–1770)
- Works Cited
- Index